person

Related to person: Person of interest, Pearson, third person, Live person, Oldest Person
See:
  • (not) half the person/man/woman (one) used to be
  • (one's) own man/woman/person
  • (one's) own person
  • (someone or something) to shout about
  • a (certain type of person or thing) among (others)
  • a (person) of substance
  • A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle
  • a man/woman/person of action
  • a morning person
  • a night person
  • a people person
  • a person after (one's) own
  • a woman, man, person, etc. of substance
  • about (one's) person
  • about/on your person
  • all able-bodied people
  • as (something) as the next man/woman/person
  • as good, well, etc. as the next person
  • as the next person
  • be (one's) own man/woman/person
  • be in (someone's) shoes
  • be in another person's shoes
  • be no respecter of persons
  • be the first (person) to (do something)
  • be the last (person) to (do something)
  • be the last person
  • couldn't happen to a nicer (person)
  • day person
  • feel like a new person
  • feel like oneself
  • flit from person to person
  • garbage person
  • girl Friday
  • Give my best to
  • Hell has no fury like a (certain type of person) scorned
  • hell hath no fury like a (certain type of person) scorned
  • hell of a (person or thing)
  • in person
  • in the person of (someone)
  • in the person of somebody
  • it's a (type of person) thing
  • like a person possessed
  • little person
  • man in the street
  • new person
  • night person
  • no (person) worth their salt would (do something)
  • no person is free who is not master of himself
  • on (one's) person
  • on person
  • one after another
  • one heck of a (something or someone)
  • one hell of a (something or someone)
  • one person's loss is another person's gain
  • one thing or person after another
  • own man/person, to be one's
  • own person, be one's
  • person Friday
  • person of color
  • person of size
  • person to person
  • person up
  • person-to-person
  • put (one's) monkey up
  • put (one's) pot on
  • put a person's monkey up
  • reasonable person
  • shifty-looking
  • the last person
  • third person
  • to a person
  • vacillate between (one person or thing) and (another)
  • well-heeled for (a particular type of person)
References in classic literature
The medical man who examined him, being informed of this circumstance, considered the post-mortem appearances as being perfectly compatible with murder by smothering--that is to say, with murder committed by some person, or persons, pressing the pillow over the nose and mouth of the deceased, until death resulted from congestion of the lungs.
(4) A morsel of torn gold thread was picked up in the bedroom, which persons expert in such matters, declare to be of Indian manufacture, and to be a species of gold thread not known in England.
The Moonstone
You lodge yourself of your own accord in a house with a drunken--tailor, I suppose--or something of the sort, and a little crooked antic of a child, or old person, or whatever it is, and then you talk as if you were drawn or driven there.
Something in the careless manner of this person, and in a certain lazily arrogant air with which he approached, holding possession of twice as much pavement as another would have claimed, instantly caught the boy's attention.
Our Mutual Friend
She had officiated as nurse to Miss Bridget, in a violent fit of illness, and had sat up many nights with that lady; besides which, she had been seen there the very day before Mr Allworthy's return, by Mrs Wilkins herself, though that sagacious person had not at first conceived any suspicion of her on that account: for, as she herself said, "She had always esteemed Jenny as a very sober girl (though indeed she knew very little of her), and had rather suspected some of those wanton trollops, who gave themselves airs, because, forsooth, they thought themselves handsome."
Jenny was now summoned to appear in person before Mrs Deborah, which she immediately did.
The History of Tom Jones a Foundling
My lord was pleased to represent me as a great admirer of projects, and a person of much curiosity and easy belief; which, indeed, was not without truth; for I had myself been a sort of projector in my younger days.
He was universally reckoned the most ignorant and stupid person among them.
Gullivers Travels
In the earliest society the proprietors made their own wealth, and so long as it comes to the owners in the direct way, no other opinion would arise in any equitable community than that property should make the law for property, and persons the law for persons.
It was not however found easy to embody the readily admitted principle that property should make law for property, and persons for persons; since persons and property mixed themselves in every transaction.
Essays Second Series
But speaking of commands that are the expression of the will of men acting in time and in relation to one another, to explain the connection of commands with events we must restore: (1) the condition of all that takes place: the continuity of movement in time both of the events and of the person who commands, and (2) the inevitability of the connection between the person commanding and those who execute his command.
War and Peace
When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.
Constitution of The United States
Concerning those that are more or less subject to envy: First, persons of eminent virtue, when they are advanced, are less envied.
The Essays
"The fact that the sun is nearly down," the Grave Person said, "is immaterial, but the fact that he did not consult his timepiece and make answer after due deliberation and consideration is fatal.
Fantastic Fables
We have hitherto proceeded on the idea that representation related to persons only, and not at all to property.
Federalist Papers Authored by James Madison